Anyone Else Sick of "Patina"

In my youth, no one aspired to a "patinated" car. If you found a "barn find" car that no one had messed with, you were lucky. But the aim was always to return it back to its glory days. Now, the goal seems to be to keep it as the same POS you found untouched under for 20 yrs under a tarp. Am I missing something?

 

gimmie some money and ill paint my truck

i like paint but cant afford

 

yes, your missing something.

 

Patina is Kool. Any body can have a shiny new paint job, but faided and rusty fenders are a statement. No wash, No wax No worry.

V

 

I was over it before the chickenshit roadster appeared on the cover of Hot Rod. Nothing more vomit-making than "faux-tina".

 

Tired of faux patina, real stuff is still ok to an extent. Painted cars, shiny or flat, for me please!

 

I'm sick of people bitching about it, does that count?

 

YES!! i am SOO glad you brought this up...im ready to go back to the days of TEAL,pink,chartruse,bright yellow ,red and orange HOTRODS!!!,,these patined hot rods are SOO plain,,,we need more ZZZtop /heartbeat/and wet paint dripping graffics...thee glorry days of street rodding as we know it!..i am so tired of these 16" steelies,,when can we PLEASE get back to the 15" ENKIE saw blade wheels??

 

I love "patina" , I'm tired of guys that wont drive their stuff except on and off a trailer !

 

x2.

 

"Patina" is synonomous with "needs paint".

A presentable car with original, faded paint is one thing. A car that looks like shit and claims "It's patina!" is BS.

Too easy.

 

Doesn't bother much. Everybody likes different styles. Only one thing gets me about it though...the rust. IMO rust isn't patina...it's just...RUST. And you know...it's gonna keep on rusting...until the poor thing just falls apart.

 

I'll stand on this side of the fence .

 

I'm REALLY tired of those oversized ugly assed wheels with the small sidewall tires everyone in the magazines have . Streetrods , muscle cars, 4x4's ,classic's , they don't look good on ANYTHING !

 

One of my favorite finds, can't get enough!

 

I'll tell you what I'm tired of, and that's someone that's got some rusty piece of shit that looks like ASS and insists on calling it "patina". Patina is patina, and ass is ass. This is NOT patina

 

like it both ways, body and paint by trade but like the patina whammy look too, my 66' C10 is original with a little spot prime here and there and i love it!

 

A car with well done Faux Patina is an artform in my book, the right cars will always stop people in their tracks.

 

Yes

 

I like originality, and something is only original once, hence "patina" since there's no such thing as a paint job that's perfect after driving the car on and off for 50 years. I hate faux patina since it's not original to the car or it's history. I like seeing some history rather than spraying epoxy over the whole thing (i.e. door lettering, old dealership logos, timing badges, etc.) That being said, if your car is just rusty because you keep in under a sprinkler, spray the fucker. Some cars have "it" some don't. I love a shiny new paint job on a car that should have one. Like any fad, people have taken it too far, and I think we are on the downside of the patina trend, which is good. I see it more than I should, and am sick of people bitching for either side.

 

I happen to look a little deeper than the paint or no paint...It's the car, the style, the era, Speaking from a HAMBer with a project with some Patina! lol

 

It's only original once. Faux patina sucks. But a barn find hot rod that has been covered up for 40 or 50 years is like hitting the lottery it's a peice of history

 

Groucho,

That's exactly what I was trying to say. Perfect!

 

ok,,that car was fuckin BADD AS FUCK when they found it,PERFECT survivor,,,,, but in my humble opinion,,,is a big slap in the face to that car with all the soul and history it has ,,,for leaving it looking like a piece of shit,,party foul on the current caretakers....

 

Patina rods I can dig, they don't have the "Look and enjoy but don't touch my classic car" fuckin' signs hanging on them. Just bugs, some dirt or mud, and gas stains on the carbs.

 

This thread sucks.......close it!

 

I'm a firm believer in the "To each his own" program. There's a lot of stuff I don't like, or think looks awful, stupid, gay, or whatever, but who am I? If you like it you should'nt give two shits what I think, just don't jam it down my throat. I don't really care who likes my car, because I LOVE it! And at least those people with cars not as cool as mine are doing something with their cars (even if it sucks) instead of playing video games or looking at internet porn. Just my $.02

JW

 

Why - yes you are. There's a lot of good people out there that can't afford to put an expensive paint job on their ride right now - especially with the economy. Perhaps their "AIM" is to finish it as you state, but they do what they can afford at the time. That's a piss poor reason to consider somebody's ride a POS.

 

damn,,that truck looks 'broken' (like a broken frame?)

 

Not yet! I'm in the middle of making some popcorn....